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Zmarties: Most popular tags on flickr

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Sunday, August 13, 2006. Most popular tags on flickr. Whilst thinking about Searching Picasa Web Albums. I did a bit of investigation into the most popular tags on flickr. Flickr provide a tag cloud. The table below shows 3 columns - the tag I searched for, the number of tags of that word found, and the number of photos found using a free text search. The table is ordered by popularity of tags. Posted by zmarties @ 8/13/2006 01:32:00 pm. Links to this post:.

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Zmarties: June 2005

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Thursday, June 30, 2005. As well as Google, Yahoo have also launched a mapping API. Whilst the Google API has it's fair share of problems, the Yahoo API is quite simple - it's such a shame that the service is such a poor one, so as to make the API a non starter as far as I'm concerned. Jeffrey McManus (who works at Yahoo) has a 7 point list as to why he thinks the Yahoo API is better. Than Google's, which comes down to this:. Repeat of juvenile humour}. So by...

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Zmarties: May 2005

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Wednesday, May 25, 2005. Piggy Bank brings the semantic web here and now. Is the rather strangely titled Firefox extension that tries to turn the existing web into the semantic web - that is to say that it aims to allow extraction of structured information from the (on the surface) unstructured data presentation that makes up most webpages, and then to go on and use that structured data. Days ago, I could not get any of the sample screen scrapers to work - th...

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Zmarties: Improving CustomEyes

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Monday, March 26, 2007. Offer a feature they call CustomEyes. Which allows you to "try on" the glasses they offer online. It works by you uploading a photo of your face, and then you can overlay an image of the glasses on top of that. Unfortunately they don't really use the power of the computer in doing this. CustomEyes. In addition, they also allow the glasses to be resized. I'd suggest that the application could be much improved by doing the following:.

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Zmarties: What are Zooomr up to this week?

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Wednesday, March 07, 2007. What are Zooomr up to this week? Just setting things up so that I'm all ready to try out the new Zooomr version 3 when it's ready (which Thomas Hawk is saying is very soon. Hosted on Zooom r. Posted by zmarties @ 3/07/2007 11:17:00 pm. Comments: Post a Comment. Links to this post:.

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Zmarties: OCR problems in Google Books

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Friday, September 29, 2006. OCR problems in Google Books. The accuracy of OCR is vastly increased when the words you read exist in a dictionary. In that case the OCR, when trying to decide between more than one possible interpretation, can use the dictionary to help determine which is the more likely. As the Google Books project announces its extension to scan European books in Madrid. Posted by zmarties @ 9/29/2006 07:24:00 am. Comments: Post a Comment.

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Zmarties: Findory rides into the sunset

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Sunday, January 14, 2007. Findory rides into the sunset. Searching is for when you know roughly what you are looking for. An alternative way of finding information is for it to be recommended to you. One of the leaders in recommendation systems is Amazon. Tries to apply some of the ideas Greg Linden learnt when building Amazon's recommendation systems (and what he's learnt since! But unfortunately Greg has found it difficult to continue to grow Findory.

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Zmarties: March 2005

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Thursday, March 17, 2005. RAW image formats, and programs that support them. For the best possible output from a digital camera, most people capture the data in the camera's RAW format, then process it later. This has the advantage of. Capturing at the camera's full colour depth - which is often much larger than the 8bpp per colour channel that JPEG supports. No lossy conversion to JPEG at all - so no data is lost. I'm pleased to report that IrfanView. A sing...

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Zmarties: Ask maintains a blacklist of IP addresses

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Sunday, January 28, 2007. Ask maintains a blacklist of IP addresses. Someone at Ask.com should realize that IP addresses are dynamically given out by ISPs to their clients (potentially) each time they connect - so blacklisting "clients" by IP addresses is not a very smart thing to be doing. I recently found that the IP address I was now allocated was somehow on Ask's blacklist, and that instead of getting Ask's search engine, all I got was a page saying:.

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Zmarties: A view from the palace

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Smart searching, smart apps, and smart ideas. Sunday, June 17, 2007. A view from the palace. Taken, processed, and uploaded as part of Hack Day London. Posted by zmarties @ 6/17/2007 01:48:00 pm. Comments: Post a Comment. Links to this post:.